The Captain's Ramblings: Halloween

Sunday, August 5, 2012

I Love Halloween

It's amazing how happy a $3 dollar Halloween decoration can make me. I'm obviously easily amused. I Love Halloween!

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Multi-platinum recording artist Alice Cooper, a mastermind of the rock horror genre, will conjure up his peculiar vision of disturbing horror imagery in two new haunted attractions debuting this fall at Halloween Horror Nights at both Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood.

Journey into legendary rocker Alice Cooper’s twisted mind and witness the natural melding of horror and Cooper’s four decades-long career. Here you will follow Steven, the iconic character from many of Cooper’s works, as you come face to face with a myriad of tormentors who threaten an already-decaying sense of sanity.

Maybe we'll finally get a Rob Zombie house in Orlando too!

Halloween Horror Nights 2012

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Fun Size

Looks like it should be a pretty funny teen Halloween movie. Love the scene where the little brother is gettin' down at the party with the "Sexy Girl Scout". The World needs more Halloween themed movies, are you listening Hollywood?

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

The Thing

So . . .
Back on July 9th Universal Orlando announced that guests at Halloween Horror Nights 21 will be able to experience a house based on their new prequel film "The Thing" before the movie even opens in theaters.

My wife Jen says "The Thing, whats that?" So I go on to explain to her that this is a new movie that is a prequel to a really good movie that I think we watched together when we first started dating, but she doesn't remember the movie. Then I go on to explain how John Carpenter made the original staring Kurt Russel, but that it was really based off the 1951 B Sci-fi film The Thing from Another World. Which really just made explaining it more difficult. So I pulled it up on Netflix and we watched John Carpenter's The Thing.

Which Jen really enjoyed, and sort of remembered seeing parts of. I know we watched it together, but to her defense it was probably 15 years ago. Jen loves the first Halloween film, so I was telling her that Tommy Doyle and Lindsey Wallace (The kids that Laurie [Jamie Lee Curtis] is babysitting) are watching The Thing from Another World on TV in the Movie.

Pretty cool that John Carpenter loved the movie The Thing from Another World so much that he included it in what would become one of his greatest films, and he would go on to remake it four years later.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Awesome Halloween Fabric

Saw this fabric at Jo-Ann Fabric & Crafts last night, thought it was fun and retro looking. It reminds me of my elementary school days and Halloweens long past, was that corny? One of these days I'll sew a quilt, I swear it. I'll probably go back and buy some of this fabric to add it to my ever growing stash of "I'm gonna make a Halloween quilt" fabrics.

Someday . . . . . . someday . . .

Sorry about the blurry photo.